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Enormous X-Ray Solar Flare Seen By SOHO
October 29, 2003 — The third most powerful solar X-ray flare on record, a remarkable X17.2 category explosion, erupted from sunspot 10486 on Tuesday, 28 October 2003. This is the second largest X-ray flare ever seen by ... > full story -
NASA Scientists Dives Into Perfect Space Storm
October 27, 2003 — Newly uncovered scientific data of recorded history's most massive space storm is helping a NASA scientist investigate its intensity and the probability that what occurred on Earth and in the ... > full story -
Sun's Microflares Could Play Macro Role In Heating Corona
July 21, 2003 — The sun's big, bright, explosive flares are the attention grabbers, but tiny, more numerous microflares may have nearly as much influence on the solar atmosphere, according to new data from the ... > full story -
Researcher Studies Aurora Borealis Secrets; Unmanned Rocket Gathers Data About Northern Lights
February 28, 2003 — Millions of people have seen the laboratory where Jim LaBelle carried out his latest research, but very few have visited it. In fact, he’s never even been there himself. That’s because ... > full story -
Violent Truth Behind Sun's 'Gentle Giants' Uncovered
February 11, 2003 — Solar physicists at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London (MSSL-UCL) have discovered new clues to understanding explosions on the ... > full story -
Magnetic 'Slinky Effect' May Power Aurora
January 20, 2003 — The spectacular aurora borealis displays that light up the northern nights could be powered by a gigantic "slinky" effect in Earth's magnetic field lines, according to research performed ... > full story -
Space Weather Forecasting Shifts Into High Gear
September 25, 2002 — Over the next decade, forecasts of spectacular northern lights and other solar-generated events will become as commonplace as today's thunderstorm predictions, say scientists meeting this week in ... > full story -
Earth's Space Storm Shield Offers Protection At A Price
May 10, 2002 — New observations from a NASA spacecraft reveal that a layer in the Earth's outer atmosphere acts like a heat shield by absorbing energy from space storms, which reduces their ability to heat the ... > full story -
"Forecasting" Space Weather: NASA, University Scientists See Prediction Of Solar Storms In Future
April 30, 2002 — Much like tornado watchers look to the skies for clues that a twister is forming, NASA and university scientists are watching the Sun in an effort to better predict space weather – blasts of ... > full story -
Solar Storms Destroy Ozone, Study Reconfirms
August 2, 2001 — A new study confirms a long-held theory that large solar storms rain electrically charged particles down on Earth's atmosphere and deplete the upper-level ozone for weeks to months thereafter. ... > full story
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